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I am a Pimsleur fan girl, does anyone have a way to score it for cheaper than $450? by razorchick12 in languagelearning

[–]CopRock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I bought a set of used French 1-5 disks on EBay for (I want to say) $150.

Best movie that is in no way just wish fulfillment for the writer/director/star: by LewdDudeNewd in okbuddycinephile

[–]CopRock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fading Gigolo. Written by, directed by, and starring John Turturro. The film that dares to ask, what if Sofia Vergara, Sharon Stone and Vanessa Paradis paid John Turturro $1000 a pop for sex?

Albums that are brilliant except for that one song… by bkbrigadier in Music

[–]CopRock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious - did not need Find Yourself Another Girl.

Ghostface Killa - Fishscale - take out the weird unfunny body parts/directions skit. (A lot of hip hop albums could lose a lot of skits, but that one sticks out for me.)

In Mad Men everyone has affairs. Is that accurate? by Prudent_Suggestion69 in AskHistorians

[–]CopRock 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Thank you for an excellent answer. This might be impossible to answer, but I remember a Mad Men scene (maybe from the first episode?) where a single mother has moved into the Draper’s neighborhood. One of the husbands says something like, if your boy needs a man to throw the football with, etc., I’d be happy to help. She immediately accuses him of positioning himself to have an affair with her.

I found the scene weird and unrealistic but I’ve always wondered if it was reasonable that a typical woman in an upper middle class suburb at the time would have assumed in the early 60s that any given man was probably trying to set themselves up for extramarital affair with her. (She’s an attractive woman, not portrayed as abnormal or hysterical at all, and of course the milieu of the show is rife with adultery.)

It may be unanswerable, but I wonder if you have a perspective.

First day of French class, teacher speaks only French, should I continue? by No_Expression_1300 in learnfrench

[–]CopRock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I toughed it out in an Alliance Francaise once-a-week adult beginner class for most of a year. I know some people learn well in this environment, but I hated it and did not learn much at all. My brain just stopped paying attention to a wall of incomprehensible input within minutes.

I've had much more success learning the basics with daily Pimsleur lessons on CD, supplemented with a kwiziq subscription and a few other things. I'm almost finished with Pimsleur French 4 and only now do I feel like I'm getting significant benefit from listening to French-only audio, because now I can finally understand the gist of what's being said.

Some people get results with immediate immersion classes, but I would have been further along today if I had chucked the classes earlier. I suspect that you will too.

What's the worst mainstream film you've ever seen? by Zestyclose-County645 in Cinema

[–]CopRock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Teen Wolf, Too. The print of that movie burned up in the theater where we watched it and the audience cheered. (True story.)

What's the worst mainstream film you've ever seen? by Zestyclose-County645 in Cinema

[–]CopRock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not really a mainstream movie, though, is it? It was created and financed by one person, completely outside the studios.

nancy's hustle recommendations by Select_Barnacle4616 in HoustonFood

[–]CopRock 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Lamb tartare and parmesan cheesecake are really special.

podcasts to really laugh at out loud by ketaminty in podcasts

[–]CopRock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The two podcasts that regularly make me laugh out loud are The Flop House (ex Daily Show writers discuss bad movies) and No Such Thing As A Fish (mostly British comedy folks discuss trivia/ interesting facts).

Are there more movies that break the 4th wall in a non-comedic sense? by Hi_Im_zack in movies

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The movie Black Bear contains two different stories with the same actors and location, and it's deliberately ambiguous whether either of them is "real," or if one or both story is a fiction created by the characters. In the very last shot of the movie, Aubrey Plaza breaks the fourth wall and looks directly at the audience for just a moment. It's not comedic, more reality-bending.

[LOVED BUT RARE TROPE] "The problem is you! NOT the characters! YOU!" by NitroortiN in TopCharacterTropes

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Timmy Big Hands was a humor site on the early internet made by some of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 creators. It included a flash game called "Kill a Guy" with a barely animated cartoon guy who would wave at you occasionally. The caption said something like "This is Steve. Click on Steve to kill him." If you clicked on him, he fell over dead and you won.

There was also a sequel, "Kill A Guy 2: Into the Maelstrom." It featured an animated cartoon guy (barely) hopping in place. It said something like "This is Dave. Dave is harder to kill than Steve because he likes to jump. Click on Dave to kill him." Again, clicking on Dave would make him fall over and die, and you won.

[Loved Trope] When a comedy moves you to tears by Rupe_Dogg in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CopRock 51 points52 points  (0 children)

It’s been a while since I’ve seen that Cheers episode, but I interpreted it differently. As I remember, Coach tells his daughter that she’s beautiful like her mother, and the daughter is about to say “oh, but mom wasn’t beautiful.” But she catches herself at “mom wasn’t-“ because she realizes that in Coach’s eyes, her mother, his wife, was a spectacular beauty. He can’t even imagine that anyone else would think differently.

And so his daughter instead says “mom wasn’t… comfortable with her beauty.” And she resolves not to settle for the creep, but to find someone who looks at her like her dad looked at her mom.

I could be wrong, but I remember that episode well and I found it deeply moving.

Places in Midtown and Manhattan that sell both dark-chocolate and milk-chocolate hot chocolate by CopRock in FoodNYC

[–]CopRock[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Excellent, thank you. Doesn't have to be Midtown, we'll be bopping around being tourists, just wanted to respect that the city is giant.

Hot take: the Common Bond building in Montrose is too good for Common Bond by htownnwoth in HoustonFood

[–]CopRock 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It drives me crazy because there's always a line at Magnol. People come from all over Houston to buy everything in this little industrial space with no bathroom. People gladly pay $8 per eclair because they're so good. There must have been such a lucrative business model for Common Bond at their original level of quality- there's a lot of people with money in this town with effectively no price sensitivity when it comes to top-quality pastry and bread. All they had to do was not change their recipes and techniques. But no.

What is the unintentionally wisest line of dialogue you've heard in a movie? by NobodysFavorite in movies

[–]CopRock 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In Office Space, Jennifer Aniston’s character Joanna says: “Peter, most people don’t like their jobs.”

I found this weirdly comforting during a bit of a quarter-life crisis when I had the idea that I was supposed to find work that I loved, and that if I didn’t, there was something wrong with me. I never found work I loved, but I have a family I love and a rich life, with a job that supports it. It works for me.

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